Cool article about Hock Wah Yeo, the designer of every PC game package that was unforgettable if you spent any time in an Electronics Boutique in the mid-90s.
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Video game cover art (and more) : Who covers the covers?
- Thread starter Torzelbaum
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That does give a whole new meaning to box art.
Mister Shake makes an excellent point
Ha, it is. I was like "what, that movie's poster is nothing like Guardian Legend," because I was used to this one:
But when image searching, this one came up, and oh yeah:
Honestly, the first one would have fit the game better,
Both are equally boss
Both are equally boss
Is THAT what the Landers are supposed to look like?
I tend to agree. Also, I actually like the Guardian Legend box more than the Creature poster it's ripping off.
Obviously!
It’s got the Noels House Party guarantee!
They don’t just give those things out!
They don’t just give those things out!
you can call them mad, but you can’t call them liars
When we did game art top 50, I put this at number one. It teaches you programming but it looks like some sort of Civ game where you are in charge of a planet sized Generation Ship setting forth on a quest both to find new life and allies in the universe and rebuild and restructure society into something transcending all our ills and failings on Earth becoming advanced not only in technology but perhaps.... our humanity. But I think the game just teaches you how to make a bunny hop across the screen.
That was me
I think... Speaking of which;
Oh, hey - I found the exact quote while looking for something else.
"Sober Men Doing Important Things"
Here we have a classic martials arts movie scene where the villains have kidnapped a fighter's girlfriend and are forcing him to fight. Which rarely ever goes well for them which seems to be the case here since it looks like their henchman just got kicked in the face pretty hard. (Maybe you shouldn't wear jeans when trying to fight someone in a kung fu uniform.) And the main villains are not reacting well to that with glowing belly guy throwing up his hands in exasperation (I can just imagine him saying "Oh, come on.") while the Dragon is growling and yelling something like "Just you wait! Our next fighter will take you down!"
But let's see how that cover art compares to the actual game / gameplay.
(Kung-Fu Master, which is known as Spartan X in Japan is a 1984 side-scrolling beat 'em up game developed by Irem.
"It was based on Hong Kong martial arts films and is loosely adapted from the Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung film Wheels on Meals and was also inspired by the Bruce Lee film Game of Death."
It was ported to quite a few different systems by a couple different publishers. It was released for the NES as Kung Fu in 1985 but was not released for the Atari 2600 until 1987.
Per BOX=ART the cover art was created by
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Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Fun fact, there's a movie called Kung Fu Master. Is it related? Absolutely! But it's not an adaptation but a French drama about a kid obsessed with the game and... other things that are not easy to broach without a content warning, directed by arthouse favourite and cinematic legend Agnes Varda.